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  • In re: Adoption of Valliere

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2023-A9104

    Appellant appealed the court's order denying his petition to adopt an adult son. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the parties demonstrated no good cause for proceeding with the adoption absent a relinquishment of parental rights by adoptee's father.

  • Mazzarese v. Mazzarese

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 428 WDA 2023

    Court affirmed trial court's order denying appellant's demand that the incomes of her children's maternal grandparents be included in the calculation of her child support obligations.

  • B.H. v. S.M.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: A06-16-60222-C-37

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its denial of appellant's petition for modification of a custody order that continued sole legal custody and primary physical custody of appellee over child.

  • In the Interest of: K.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 100 MDA 2024

    Court found no abuse of discretion in changing primary goal to adoption and moving reunification to a concurrent goal given mother's lack of progress in remedying conditions to permit increased visitation or less supervision and child's need for permanency. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Asumana v. Asumana

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2019 EDA 2023

    Appellant husband appealed the trial court's divorce decree, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his petition to declare his marriage with appellee wife to be void or voidable. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in concluding that the parties ratified their premature marriage by participating in a second marriage ceremony after expiration of the three-day waiting period for their marriage license to become valid.

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  • Vrankovich v. Vrankovich

    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 11114 OF 2017, C.A.

    The court issued an order making equitable distribution of marital assets.

  • Bhatia v. Fernandez

    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 1715 EDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's protection from abuse petition. The court affirmed, holding that sufficient evidence supported the trial court's order where appellant, as appellee's former boyfriend, caused appellee to fear for her safety after he refused to end contact with her and entered her apartment with a key that he was not supposed to have.

  • Caldwell v. Jaurigue

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 30 MAP 2023

    Appellant appealed the Superior Court's order requiring that he pay child support to child's biological father. The court reversed, holding that a deceased mother's paramour, who obtained in loco parentis standing and was awarded partial physical custody of child, had no child support liability where he did not have legal custody and thus was not child's "parent."

  • Hunt v. Vardaro

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 976 WDA 2023

    Trial court correctly dismissed custody complaint for lack of in loco parentis standing where petitioner had not resided with the child for nearly five years and the child's father and sole living parent had custody and objected to visitation with petitioner. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • In re: G.J.Z.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20007 OF 2023, O.C.-A.

    Petitioner sought involuntary termination of parental rights regarding his nephew, a minor child. The court denied the petition where mother and father exhibited a consistent desire to maintain their parental claim, successfully participated in ongoing drug rehabilitation, and were blocked from access to minor child by petitioner after petitioner was awarded physical and legal custody.